The Effects of Acoustic and Semantic Similarity on Concept Identification
Veronika Coltheart · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1972
Since both acoustic and semantic similarity exert an influence on memory, the role of memory in concept identification (CI) was investigated by varying the acoustic and semantic similarity of the stimuli used in the CI task. Varying acoustic similarity had no effect on CI, but CI was significantly impaired when the dimensions of a CI task were semantically similar.